On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE. #HotUnionSummer #UnionStrong

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    1 year ago

    What blows my mind is that they weren’t AITSE before??

    Like so many positions in film are union, crazy that these key people were in the blind-spot

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      VFX unionization has been suppressed for decades through a consistent level of FUD and a constant race to the bottom-style system that has been fully supported, encouraged and enforced by the big studio clients.

      It’s barely even worth linking that “life after pi” docu-short about Rhythm&Hues at this point, as the same thing has happened again and again since then.

      It would be nice if this marks some kind of sea change, but I wouldn’t hold my breath just yet.